The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo NON-FICTION Bread is baked and shared

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The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo NON-FICTION Bread is baked and sharedWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2024* SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON FICTION CROWN* A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In August 1989, a group of activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain and held a picnic. On wisps of rumour, thousands of